“Send me your light and your faithful care,
let them lead me;
let them bring me to your holy mountain,
to the place where you dwell.”
Jesus,
Today we want to thank you that world leaders are joining together to call for an international pandemic treaty to ensure the world is prepared for any future pandemics.
We pray for the development of the treaty, help each of the leaders around the world come together behind this. To protect those who can not protect themselves.
Amen
Read More“Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will praise you forever;
from generation to generation
we will proclaim your praise.”
Father,
We thank you that we are now at the point of restrictions beginning to lift, with six people from two households now able to meet outside.
Our prayer is that as people are able to meet outside they would be reunited with friends and family and able to begin to rebuild relationships that have been so hard to maintain during this time.
Amen
Read More“Help us, God our Savior,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us and forgive our sins
for your name’s sake.”
Lord Jesus,
Thank you for the speed at which vaccines have been developed and rolled out around the world. We pray that each vaccine would be effective and safe. We bring to you the AstraZeneca vaccine and ask that this would continue to be safe and any issues that have been found with it would not become wide ranging. Keep those who have been given this vaccine safe.
Amen
Read More“She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.”
Lord Jesus,
Today we want to thank you for the gift of mothers. For the way in which they care and devote themselves to raising children.
We also pray today for those for whom this is a difficult day. For those who may long to be a mother but aren’t able to, for those who have a strained relationship with their mother or may have lost their mothers. We pray that your peace will be with them and that you would support them today.
Amen
Read More“Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth,
burst into jubilant song with music.”
Lord Jesus,
Today we want to thank you for all the positive things that have come out such a difficult time. In the midst of this pandemic we have seen so many things that we can be thankful for, we want to thank you for the ways you have been at work during this time.
Thank you for the ways our communities have come together and served and got to know each other in ways they never had before. Thank you for the ways in which families have come together, not being able to go to school or work families have been able to spend much more quality time together. We thank you for the swift and effective development and roll-out of the vaccine.
Amen
Read More“Come near and rescue me;
deliver me because of my foes.”
Lord Jesus,
We thank you for our emergency services in this country and pray that you would pour your spirit out over them. At this time with so many things happening in the world.
Today we pray for Sarah Everard, we pray for her safe return, we pray that she would be found quickly and safely. We pray for the people who are searching for her that they would have wisdom to know the right places to look. Give her friends and family peace and rest in what must be such an awful time.
Amen
Read More“God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.”
Lord Jesus,
We pray for those affected in the blast at a munitions plant in Equatorial Guinea. We pray for all those who have lost loved ones and been injured. With any form of explosion like this, the fallout from it can last for years. Would you protect those that are at risk of losing businesses and further illness from this explosion.
Amen
Read More“The Lord is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusts in him, and he helps me.
My heart leaps for joy,
and with my song I praise him.”
Lord Jesus,
We thank you that schools have been able to reopen this week in the first big step back to being able to be with each other once again. We thank you for all of the teachers who have taught and cared for their students throughout this time.
We pray for the students as they return to school and have to readjust to learning in the classroom after being away for so long and we pray for the teachers as they must exhausted from this season and now are teaching back in the classroom for the first time in almost a year.
Amen
Read More“He has saved us and called us to a holy life - not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.”
Lord Jesus,
We thank you that you have saved us and called us into a holy life. Lord, we thank you that this calling is not based on anything we could have done or achieved but we are saved because you love us enough to do it for us.
We thank you that this was your plan all along - that before the beginning of time, you planned to be in relationship with us. Help us not take that love for granted.
Amen
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